The 2015 Journal Citation Reports have just been released and we are pleased to announce the Journal of Population Economics’ new impact factor: 1.139. The impact factor has increased continuously since 2008 and peaked at 1.47 in 2013, and after an IF of 1.109 it reached 1.139 i

by Klaus F. Zimmermann . Today is B-Day, when British voters decide whether to leave or stay in the European Union. For anyone fond of buzzwords the choice is simple: Brexit or Bremain? Yet the data feeding into the referendum are more complex

by Can Tang, Liqiu Zhao, Zhong Zhao . We present the first systematic study on child labour in China. Child labour is not a negligible social phenomenon in China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per